Don Honeyman (1919-2011) joined American Vogue in 1940, straight out of college: an actual job (as a studio assistant) was the prize in a national competition run by Vogue. Initially employed to assist famous photographers such as Horst P. Horst and Edward Steichen, by 1941 he had assignments of his own, photographing celebrities and even some fashion. After Pearl Harbor Honeyman went into the army, where he served throughout the Pacific campaign as a combat cameraman; several of his films have been used in documentaries. Postwar Vogue was inundated with photographers, so he was assigned to reopen Vogue’s Paris studios. In Paris he met his wife, the author Gitta Sereny. He later worked for Vogue in London, then New York, then London again, where he settled permanently with his family. He left Vogue to form his own studio in 1963. However, his most iconic work was his late-1960s solarized image of Che Guevara, which sold in large numbers as a poster.
